Noah’s Ark 8

Welcome and thanks for reading. I’d like to review the estimated number of sea creatures during Noah’s time.

According to Ernest Mayr, a leading taxonomist, Noah did not need to board an estimated 21,000 species of fish or
the 1700 tunicates (marine chordates like sea squirts) found throughout the sea world, or the 600 echinoderms in-
cluding star fish and sea urchins, or the 107,000 mollusks such as mussels, clams and oysters, or the 10,000
coelenterates like corals and sea anemones, jelly fish and hydroids or the 5000 species of sponges, or the 30,000
protozoans, the microscopic single celled creatures.

In addition, some land animals are aquatic. For example, sea turtles and alligators can survive in the water. Also,
a large number of arthropods numbering 838,000 species such as lobsters, shrimp and crab can survive in the sea.

The point is that the majority of animals did not need to enter Noah’s Ark to survive the flood.